We're working on a feature for our B2B web app that makes it easier for users to place orders with their (B2B) suppliers. An initial design has a dropdown box embedded in the label of one of the radio ...

Has anybody studied, seen a study or even just gathered anecdotal knowledge about which type of affordance works best for switching between languages on a website. My guess would be that spelling the ...

Lately I've been spending a lot of time in the French speaking part of Switzerland. In being here I've noticed an awful lot of websites, including big names like paypal and google, breaking a major ...

I'm building an android app and I'm asking myself what strategy (regarding the final user) would be the best about multi-language.
In android, the first time a device is started the user must choose ...

I design enterprise web apps in the US, and am looking to take on a New Zealand client. At first glance, the UI/UX tendencies of the New Zealand web space appears to be very similar if not identical ...

I have found quite many discussions around country and language selection but none of them was mobile specific. So I'd like to open a new discussion around that ...
I'm currently designing a mobile ...

What would be the best way to determine if a particular keyboard character is available/convenient (enough) for most/all end users to type, regardless of keyboard layout?
For instance, if I want to ...

It's common to put verbs in buttons like "Delete" or "Edit", ... .
In English I know it's common practice to use the third-person verbs "Delete", "Edit", "Add", "Click here", ... but not the actual ...

We know that users in bi-directional (bi-di) locales (speakers of Arabic and Hebrew) for example read/write text from right-to-left (RTL) and read/write numbers from left-to-right. hence we have bi-di ...

This is a really simple question, but the answer is stumping me: How do you format another country's currency correctly?
Specifically, this answer, quoting from Wikipedia, has a great survey of how ...

I read in a forum that 12px english/roman character will appear to be readable while a 12px japanese character would be very heard to read. This brings me to the question, "Is there an ideal font size ...

I'm designing a website to provide support for internet connected devices. The website will also allow on-line purchases and subscription payments for accounts. I don't want to target only a specific ...

I'm running an eCommerce website that allows users to select their preferred currency via a drop-down in their shopping cart. The currencies are localized using real-time exchange rates from a JSON ...

I was wondering if Arabic web browsers have the back/forward buttons reversed, and if they appear at the top left or the top right, which seems like it would be natural as the order of the language if ...

Is there a resource anywhere that lists common web UI phrases in multiple languages?
I'm interested in having quick access to translations of phrases like cancel, save, welcome, and so on for quick ...

One of the things that irk me about Origin, Uplay and a couple of other digital distribution platforms for games is that, because I live in Belgium, I cannot choose to browse their store in English. I ...

I am building a webpage for a company that is present in many countries, thats why there will be individual websites for every country. While having no problems with the technical aspects, I am a bit ...

JavaScript, PHP and various other web-based languages have date functions whose weeks begin on Sunday and end on Saturday. That is, as individual days, Sunday is identified 0 and Saturday is 6 (with ...

In North America the Aesop fable about the tortoise and the Hare is well known, and glyphs of a tortoise (turtle) and hare (rabbit) are understood to represent varying speeds.
Is this generally the ...

The app runs on a basic handscanner- tiny screen, physical keyboard with English letters and numbers.
For 95% of user interactions, the flow is standard happy-path, no keyboard or screen interaction ...

There are three choices of language. At least on mobile it would be nice if I could save a little space in the footer by omitting the currently active language. This seems risky though as it means the ...

I have a site that is translated into 4 languages.
We accept credit card information via an iframe (because we don't want to deal with PCI compliance, so we're letting a 3rd party receive and store ...

We are creating a language dialog that suggest the user to change language based on the set browser language. E.g. if someone with browserlanguage ch-de visits our English website, a dialog at the top ...

I saw some discussions about internationalization and localization, and saw some examples of lists displaying languages written in that specific language. I think it is quite confusing to try and sort ...

Imagine a site that's available in multiple languages. The language is detected automatically by looking at the IP or the browser header. But that's not bulletproof, so a few users might end up on a ...

While travelling abroad, I often get pages on websites that are normally in English for me (e.g. images.google.com) served instead in whatever the local language is. The problem is that I can't read ...